> but languages are generally pretty resistant to borrowing grammatic features wholesale versus, say, borrowing vocabulary.
Not always check Spanish for example they took a lot from Arabic, like 'EL'.
Not always check Spanish for example they took a lot from Arabic, like 'EL'.
Latin did not have articles. The use of articles is a grammatical feature that has been borrowed between languages. But yes: that kind of borrowing is a lot less frequent than borrowing of vocabulary.